Today I went to a furniture store that was having a “going out of business” sale. Except it wasn’t exactly that.
Rather, the store is going entirely virtual. Consequently, the store owners want to sell off all of the inventory at their remaining bricks-and-mortar outlets.
There is a delicious irony about this development. We are literally talking about the physical objects that form the environment of our actual bodies.
There is nothing more solid and real than the chair we sit upon, or the table at which we eat. Yet we seem to be moving toward a society in which even these things are purchased on-line, as virtual items in our virtual shopping cart.
I wonder how far it will go.